8. Sweets for the Sweet

Chapter 8 Sweets for the Sweet My mom always goes grocery shopping on Saturday. And she always tries to get me to come along. "A.J., let's go grocery shopping," she said. "No thanks." "Come on, A.J.," she said. "I'll let you push the cart." "Oh, man, I want to watch TV, Mom." "I'll buy you a treat," my mom said. "Sweets for the sweet!" A treat! The last time I tasted anything sweet, it was that Twinkie that Ms. Leakey tried to grab out of my mouth. I hadn't had candy or cookies in so long, I hardly remembered what they tasted like. "Let's go!" I told my mom.

第八章给甜心的糖果我妈妈总是在星期六去杂货店购物。 她总是想让我一起去。 “aj，我们去杂货店买东西吧，”她说。 “不,谢谢”。“来吧，a.j.，”她说。 “我让你来推车。” “天哪，我想看电视，妈妈。” “我请你吃，”妈妈说。 “糖果给甜蜜的人！”一个治疗!我最后一次吃甜的东西，是那个奶油夹心蛋糕。 利基想从我嘴里抓出来。 我已经很久没有吃过糖果或饼干了，我几乎不记得它们是什么味道了。 “我们走吧!”我告诉了妈妈。

We drove to the supermarket. My mom parked the car and got out her shopping list and coupons. I went to get a cart and pushed it through the magic doors that open all by themselves. Those doors are cool. "Can I get my treat now, Mom?" I asked. "Not yet," she told me. "First we have to do our shopping." Bummer in the summer! Shopping is way overrated. I don't know if you ever went grocery shopping with your mom or dad, but it is the most boring thing in the history of the world. We had to go up and down every aisle of the supermarket. I thought I was gonna die. All I wanted was my treat. When my mom buys a melon, she acts like she's buying a house. She has to feel each melon. She has to smell each melon. Then she has to shake each melon and

我们开车去了超市。 妈妈把车停好，拿出购物清单和优惠券。 我去找了一辆手推车，推着它穿过那些自动打开的魔法门。 那些门很酷。“妈妈，我现在可以请客了吗？”我问。 “还没有，”她告诉我。“首先我们得去买东西。” 夏天的流浪者！购物被高估了。 我不知道你有没有和你妈妈或爸爸一起去杂货店买过东西，但这是世界历史上最无聊的事情。 我们不得不在超市的每一条通道上来回走动。 我以为我要死了。 我只想要我请客。 我妈买瓜的时候，就像买房子一样。 她必须摸摸每一个甜瓜。 她必须闻每个甜瓜。 然后她要摇每个瓜，然后

listen to it. What is her problem? "It's just a melon!" I said. "They're all the same." "I have to find the perfect melon," she said. I hate melon. Finally, after a million hundred hours, she found the perfect melon. We were finished grocery shopping. "So, what treat do you want, A.J.?" my mom asked. I had been thinking about it the whole time we were shopping. At first I wanted an ice-cream pop. But I decided that an icecream pop wouldn't last very long. Then I wanted a Devil Dog. But they come in boxes of eight, and I knew my mom would say I could only get one treat. Then I saw something at the end of the candy aisle. It was a giant box filled to the

听一听。她有什么问题？ “这只是一个甜瓜！”我说。 “它们都是一样的。”“我必须找到最完美的甜瓜，”她说。 我讨厌吃瓜。最后，经过一百万个小时，她找到了完美的甜瓜。 我们买完了杂货。 “那么，aj，你想要什么？”妈妈问。 我们购物的时候我一直在想这件事。 起初我想要一个冰淇淋。 但我决定，一个冰淇淋不会持续很长时间。 然后我想要一只魔鬼狗。 但它们是一盒八个的，我知道我妈妈会说我只能得到一个。 然后我在糖果区尽头看到了一样东西。 那是一个巨大的箱子，装满了

brim with candy. Just about every kind of candy in the world was in there. I led my mom over to it. "Okay, you can have one treat, A.J.," my mom said. "Just one. I'll get in line. You choose your treat and meet me in the checkout line." I looked over the candy: Milky Way, AirHeads, Mars bars, Twix, Kit Kat, Chunky, mr. Goodbar, York Peppermint Patties, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Mike and Ike, Atomic FireBall, JuJu Fish, Sour Neon Worms, Goobers, Laffy Taffy, Nerds, Sugar Daddy, Baby Ruth, Snickers, Kisses, M & M's (plain and peanut), gummi bears, Dots, Junior Mints, Milk Duds, Good & Plenty, Whoppers, Twizzlers, Dum Dum, Skittles, Butterfinger, Starburst, Crunch, Jolly Rancher, Sweet Pops, Tootsie Roll…. I couldn't decide which one I wanted.

装满了糖果。几乎世界上所有的糖果都在里面。 我把我妈带过去了。“好吧，你只能吃一次，aj，”我妈妈说。 “只有一个。我去排队。 你选择你的款待，然后在收银台等我。” 我看了看糖果：Milky Way， AirHeads, Mars bars, Twix, Kit Kat, Chunky, mr。 好棒、约克薄荷饼、里斯花生酱杯、迈克和Ike、原子火球、巨巨鱼、酸霓光虫、Goobers、太妃糖、Nerds、糖爸爸、Baby Ruth、士力架、Kisses、m&m（原味和花生）、小熊软糖、Dots、Junior Mints、Milk Duds、Good & Plenty、Whoppers、Twizzlers、Dum Dum、彩虹糖、Butterfinger、Starburst、Crunch、Jolly Rancher、Sweet Pops、Tootsie Roll.... 我无法决定我想要哪一个。

Everything looked so good. I wanted them all. I thought and thought and thought until my brain was about to explode. Finally, I decided to get a 3 Musketeers bar. I leaned all the way over. I reached out to pick up the 3 Musketeers bar. I picked up the 3 Musketeers bar. And you'll never believe in a million hundred years what happened next. A hand came out from under all that candy! It grabbed my hand! "Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!" I screamed. It was the scariest thing I had ever seen in my life! It was like one of those movies where a zombie hand pops out of a grave in the middle of the night.

一切看起来都很好。 我都想要。我想啊想啊想，直到我的脑子都要爆炸了。 最后，我决定买一个三剑客巧克力棒。 我倾身而过。 我伸手去拿三剑客酒吧。 我拿起了3个火枪手。 你永远也不会相信接下来发生了什么。 一只手从糖果下面伸出来！它抓住了我的手！“Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh !”我尖叫起来。 这是我一生中见过的最可怕的事情！就像电影里半夜里僵尸的手从坟墓里蹦出来一样。

But then something even scarier happened. A person was attached to the hand! The person came up from under the

但是更可怕的事情发生了。 一个人被绑在了手上！那个人从下面走了出来